The 60s ... What did like best about the 60s?
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I was living in London in the 60's , jobs galore , I shared a Flat with my schoolfriend and her Flatmate and remember jiving with one of them to the first Beatle "she loves you yeah yeah ". There was some drug taking , but very little , drinking also did not create many drunks .
"those were the days my Friend, I thought they'd never end" was true.
Great Times.
We had the fashions and the music and the best part was falling in Love, although it didn't last it was a fun time, working in a factory during the day , rushing home for tea and a bath then working in a club in town in the evening, walking home if you saw someone who was drunk or homeless you would get a cheery wave and a shout of " goodnight" this would not happen now, boundless energy, what a shame that we have to age.
Smell of the coalman delivering sacks of coal, face blackened by soot......The milkman walked the roads with a hand operated electric float......Babies parked outside shops while mums shopped........Bonny Baby contests and Acker Bilk at Bishop's Park in Fulham......
I could go on!......Fabulous days x
I worked full time at Monsanto Chemicals ....great firm to work for, and my Flatmates and I worked in the evening selling photographs of people, taken earlier , at all the best Hotels in London . They truly were great times.
side me. He said 'your'e Welsh my Dear aren't you, wonderful Singers the Welsh'....I just kept on walking LOL
I can remember vividly jiving in the Flat with my Flatmate when the first T.V. appearance of the Beatles singing 'she loves you yea yea ' .......the 60's truly were the best years of of the Century.
Drugs and drink were minimum you could leave your job and walk into another the same day .
Then we had to do a paper round, help the milkman, and clear the snow from old people's paths before trudging 5 miles to school. We were always late, so the headmaster would beat us black and blue with a bull whip, then hang us upside down till hometime.
On Saturdays we had to do a 14 hour shift at the sewage works, we had to stand waist deep in the muck trying to sort out anything recyclable.The gaffer would push us under the surface if we made a mistake, then dock our wages.
On Sunday we got a lie in till 5am then went off to clean factory chimneys all day until it got dark.. When we couldn't afford coal grannie would suck a Victory V and we could warm ourselves on her tongue!
By eck, they were wonderful days!
They would never survive.....
Liverpool and enjoyed the merseybeat. Shopping at Cand A and hot summers on the beach at Crosby. And Waterloo .
There were no Asian run corner shops,we had one Chinese restaurant in the town and the chip shop stayed open till the pubs kicked out.
There was always a double feature at the cinema, ie 2 films for the price of one.
Hardly anyone has a home phone, so if you wanted to talk to a friend you legged it round to their house.
Radio Caroline was the number1 radio station and radio Luxembourg played the Top 20 on Sunday evening.
The thing I liked best about the 60's is that back then I was YOUNG!